I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Update: Added some additional related information regarding Lindsey Douthit, who wrote the Concerned Women For America piece excerpted in this diary.
~~Autumn~~
Sometimes, the diaries write themselves. Of course since lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights are in discussion regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) -- the hearing in the House Labor & Education Committee had a committee hearing regarding ENDA on September 23rd -- some conservative "Christian" organizations have already expressed their unhappy feelings related to the ENDA, and especially the ENDA hearing.
So let's feel our happy feelings in reading their unhappy feelings, shall we?
...Only one conservative voice was allowed on the panel: Craig Parshall, senior vice president and general counsel of National Religious Broadcasters.
"ENDA, if passed into law would impose a substantial and crippling burden on religious organizations," he said. "In the cases I reviewed recently where there's a clash between homosexual rights -- sexual orientation being protected under discrimination laws on one hand and Christian religious liberties on the other -- Christian liberties lose and the homosexual rights win." ...
Well, "we" (royal version of me) get tired of hearing this tired dribble. We have a First Amendment in the United States, and as long as they can self-fund their messages to their audiences, the government will not silence them and their messages.
[Below the fold, what the Family Research Council, the Traditional Values Coalition, and the Concerned Women For America have to say about ENDA/the ENDA hearings.]
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is on the fast track in Congress. The bill will get a full committee hearing on Sept. 23 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
For the first time, the measure includes special rights based on "transgenderism."
Family advocates say the bill would put undue burdens on Christian employers by forcing them to hire people whose views are at odds with the company's values.
Gay activists are also pushing to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, but with other pressing issues facing Congress, it doesn't look like it will get a vote this year...
Note that the anonymous writer of this piece doesn't put quotations marks around the term gay, but does around the term transgenderism.
In a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people tangibly exist, Focus On The Family and other conservative "Christian" people and organizations otherize all of us LGBT people. But, just as I use quotation marks around the Christian in conservative "Christian" to say these self-identified Christians aren't really Christians, these religious right folk use quotations around trans terms to say my trans peers and I don't really exist.
In the same vein, by the way, Peter LaBarbera and OneNewsNow/the American Family Association (AFA) attempt to do a similar thing in the piece Dems focus on homosexual agenda. In that piece, the phrase "so-called 'fully inclusive' version of ENDA" is used. I believe the quotation marks around the phrase "fully inclusive" there is meant with the same intent regarding trans people and community as the quotation marks around the term "transgenderism" in the FOTF/CitizenLink piece.
Gays should perhaps at least take some small comfort in knowing that the conservative "Christian" group Focus On The Family believes that gays exist, and actually refers to gay people by the term gay. The AFA apparently believe gay people exist, but intentionally medicalize and otherize gay people by using the term homosexuals.
Trans people exist; I exist. We aren't others to be erased or otherized quietly with quotation marks; we are human beings that are now on the radar of conservative "Christian" people and organizations.
As much as conservative "Christians" want to erase my peers and I with quotation marks, just as I want to erase their version of Christianity with my quotation marks -- well, the reality is no one is really erasing the existance or identities of anyone else with quotation marks. It's something to note in these days before the official National Punctuation Day®.
"There is no evidence of an epidemic of sexual-orientation 'hate crimes' in this country," said Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst at Focus on the Family Action. "So, what's the real reason for this bill? Gay activists want to silence those who speak out against homosexuality."
When I read that, I remember the words I heard spoken in recorded telephone call by Allen Ray Andrade, the convicted hate crime committing murderer of Angie Zapata:
"It's not like I went up to a schoolteacher and shot her in the head or ... killed a law-abiding straight citizen."
Well, Ashley Horne, federal hate crime legislation isn't about wanting to "...silence those who speak out against homosexuality," unless it's speech connected to violent crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, with the victims ove these violent crimes selected specifically because the victim is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
You know, victims like Angie Zapata. Her killer, Allen Ray Andrade, was convicted of both a murder and a hate crime after stating in a recorded, jailhouse phone call that no one would care much about Angie's death because she wasn't a schoolteacher or law-abiding straight citizen.
So let me personally impugn the motives of Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst at Focus on the Family Action with a quote of my own:
"There is evidence of hate crimes in this America, where victims are selected because of their perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression.
"So, what's the real reason that Ashley Horne of Focus On The Family and her conservative 'Christian' cohorts want to protect the 'free speech' of convicted killers like Allen Ray Andrade in their effort to defeat hate all crime legislation? It's because they want people like Andrade to have the 'free speech' connected to their bias motivated, violent crimes protected when they terrorize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual people to be protected 'free speech' -- 'free speech' statements such as Andrade's 'Gay things must die' and 'It's not like I went up to a schoolteacher and shot her in the head or ... killed a law-abiding straight citizen.'"
That's right, I said it, and I believe it. Ashley Horne of Focus On The Family, and all of her cohorts Focus On The Family are arguing to protect the horrid 'free speech' of killers like Allen Ray Andrade, who brutally beat Angie Zapata to death last July 16th with a fire extinguisher specifically because she was transgender.
Ashley Horne must own the "free speech" of Allen Ray Andrade in her opposition to hate crimes legislation, since "free speech" is what she's claiming lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people like me want to suppress.
Apparently, trans people and issues are the new, and apparently key focus of "traditional values" organizations.
This e-letter from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is the third attack from religious right/"traditional values" organizations this week -- the other two from the Family Research Council (FRC) and Focus On The Family Action (FOTF Action) (both of which used the crossdressed/transgender bathroom predator meme). This time the issue over medical and psychological treatment of gender variant youth.
And, along with the Focus On The Family Action e-letter, NARTH too engaged in fundraising over trans people.
I believe this is a sign of desperation -- they are losing the larger LGB basic civil rights "war," and so they are trying to build extreme hysteria over T's. And to them, this is a war -- the FRC said this...
Anyone who has predicted an end to the culture war needs only to look toward New Hampshire this week. There, state leaders are debating a radical menu of issues that could forever change the landscape of the family in New England.
And from FOTF:
Every year, Focus Action engages directly in several of these state battles to help stop such legislation in its tracks. If you've been supporting us for any length of time, then you've had a part in defeating these schemes. Your support allows us to activate pro-family citizens through mailings, e-mail blasts, telephone calls and advertising campaigns
And in the email below from NARTH, there's a section subheader entitled The Battle for GID Children -- They're even using war related terminology regarding trans and gay youth.
Next to marriage equality, it seems to me that trans people and issues are rising to the top of the "traditional values" organizations' memes against LGBT civil rights -- and these "traditional values" organizations have essentially declared war on trans people in the process.
The section of the findraising e-letter from NARTH that talks about transyouth is below the fold -- select the images of the e-leter to read a PDF of the whole e-letter. The PDF includes the request for funds by NARTH's president, Julie Harren Hamilton, Ph. D.
• 85.1% of transgender students reported being verbally harassed based on their sexual orientation and gender/gender expression
• 96.1% of students heard negative comments related to students' gender expression
• 38.4% of students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their gender expression.
• Transgender students reported experiencing higher levels of harassment and assault related to various personal characteristics than other students.
It seems pretty wonderful to me that GLSEN has set aside a day for students to think about the school experiences of transyouth.
TransAction Day, of course, has been noticed by conservative "Christians." CitizenLink (a Focus On The Family subsidiary) and Exodus International have paid attention to this day:
We have to be completely vigilant about what our children are being taught in schools. Parents need to pay attention and raise concerns with their school districts as well as teach their children healthy, biblical role-modeling of their gender.
Gender is not a social construct. It's a biological fact. We have men and women and that's been the case since the beginning of Creation.
The Lifetime Channel is airing a controversial new movie this weekend in which conservative Christian parents shoulder the blame after their gay-identified son commits suicide. "Prayers for Bobby," based on a true story from the 1970s, stars Sigourney Weaver.
Family advocates are concerned the film tells only half of the story, leaving out the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.
The article quotes Terri Brown, a mother that's been praying for 17 years that her son would find freedom from the homosexual identity:
I can understand a mother's despair, especially a Christian mother's despair. Because we know what the Bible says about homosexuality.
My heart goes out to people that struggle with homosexuality. They did not ask for that struggle. What do we do with our sin nature? We take it to the Lord and let Him renew our minds and hearts.
Again, from the article:
Jeff Johnston, gender analyst at Focus on the Family, said the movie's message runs contrary to God's.
...No matter where the movie lands, Johnston said, people can and do change their sexual orientation -- he's living proof.
I'm always a little skeptical of folk who have a personal set of experiences, and then try to globalize the experience to everyone else -- such as Focus On The Family putting Jeff Johnston putting himself up as the "living proof" that one can, by effort and God's help, change one's sexual orientation. Even allowing that it's true for Johnston, it doesn't mean it's true for every other lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person.
This all sounds like "you homosexuals can change your sexual orientation with God's help." But, you have to look at the rest of the FOTF message, and look at how they spent millions for the Yes On Prop 8 campaign, and then laying off employees for lack of cash in December of last year.
[Caleb H. Price, research analyst at Focus on the Family] says Focus on the Family has caught a lot of heat for referring to this philosophy as "ethical bankruptcy." He contends teens are not stable enough emotionally to make a decision of such magnitude.
"We see this as a situation that's tragic, foolish, and unconscionable for a professional medical group to encourage young people to move forward on a road where they might be making a decision about changing their gender," he adds.
According to Price, the drug treatment program is another example of parents and physicians bowing to political correctness and to the demands and feelings of young people.
We recommend that adolescents who fulfill eligibility and readiness criteria for gender reassignment initially undergo treatment to suppress pubertal development.
...Caleb H. Price, research analyst at Focus on the Family, said young people are in no position to make a decision of this magnitude.
"Teenage years are marked by a confusing maze of feelings that wax and wane on a daily basis," he said. "It is unconscionable for a professional group to push hormone treatment that alters - perhaps irrevocably - natural physical development.
"The endocrinologists have clearly been hijacked by activist groups, lost their credibility and entered into ethical bankruptcy. They've capitulated to the political correct notion that gender is a social construct and can be changed."
The problems with that Caleb statement are many, but to let me highlight a few.
First and perhaps foremost, FOTF's Caleb isn't an endocrinologist, but he feels confident in substituting his judgment for those of a society of endocrinologists. That's a lot of righteous hubris.
Secondly, Caleb makes the assumption that the youth in question are fickle in how they perceive their own gender identities. I know from talking to folk at Trans Youth Family Allies, health care providers, other trans people, and my personal experience that these youth aren't fickle in how they perceive their own gender identities. If an individual youth was fickle in his or her gender identity, that would be the reason for a healthcare gatekeeper to state that a particular adolescent didn't meet the eligibility and readiness criteria for this treatment.
Also, transyouth aren't making healthcare decisions on treatment on their own. By framing the treatment schema as FOTF's Caleb does, he implies that's exactly what's happening. Does he really, honestly believe that parents and medical professionals aren't involved in the decision making process? Does he really believe that youth make these decisions on their own? In my opinion, this is yet another example of FOTF's less than honest framing of issues.
And lastly, while Caleb and most medical and healthcare experts on trans people agree that gender can't be changed, Caleb doesn't agree with what scientific evidence seems to be indicating regarding how sex and gender don't always match. As Zoe Brain over at AEBrain documents, there is scientific evidence that sex (what's between the legs) and gender (what's between the ears) don't always match; there is a growing body of evidence that people's brains can be cross-gendered from their bodies.
As usual, Focus On The Family appears very willing to substitute their organizations' interpretation of the Bible for good science, good healthcare, and/or good public policy.
Judge Robertson's claim that the Library of Congress violated Title VII of the 1964 civil rights act by not hiring Schroer is incorrect - and judicial activism. Title VII only addresses the issue of males and females - not confused individuals who think they're the opposite sex. Robertson's use of this section is illegitimate and should be appealed to a higher court.
A person who thinks he's the opposite sex is medically diagnosed as having Gender Dysphoria, which is still listed as a mental disorder in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). A person who wears opposite sex clothing has a mental illness described as transvestic fetishism in the DSM.
There is currently no federal law in effect that provides cross-dressers, transsexuals, drag queens, or she-males federally protected class status. However, efforts have been underway in Congress for years to pass legislation doing this. The brief filed by the Library of Congress in this case points out that Title VII does not protect transgendered persons from discrimination.
One of those laws is the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which has been blocked from passage by the aggressive work of TVC. ENDA originally contained protections for "gender identity" but was stripped from the bill by homosexual Barney Frank in order to get it passed.
Using a phrase I heard often while serving in the US Navy, l feel like I'm "beating a dead horse" when I point out how offensive Andrea Lafferty's and Lou Sheldon's language usually is regarding transgender people. They frequently refer to trans people by the incredibly offensive pejorative "she-male".
The TVC also cites the how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) lists transgender conditions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) -- apparently as a reason why transgender people should experience employment discrimination, which by extension...
Well, maybe they like most veterans, but they consider employment discrimination against the transgender ones to be desirable. They're pretty much on record now as saying as much.
"Judge James Robinson, a Clinton appointee, traded in his judge's robe for a legislator's pen in order to achieve something contrary to the law and previous federal court decisions...He effectively amended the federal employment laws to grant protected status to persons suffering from gender-identity disorder, thereby equating it with race, sex or religion."
What? Hausknecht and Focus On The Family didn't even thank Col. Diane Schroer (Ret.) for her service to her country as a special forces veteran, or for the services she was going to provide to the Library Of Congress in the future as a terrorism expert? Of course not.
Nor does Hausknecht and the Focus On The Family folk seem interested at all in winning the alleged "war on terror." If this is about the "war on terror," I would think that whether or not Col. Schroer -- as a special forces terrorism expert -- was qualified, and the best person for the job she applied for.
So, correct me if I'm wrong: We have a person who was literally the best qualified person for an anti-terrorism job, and we didn't hire this person because she was a transsexual. It seems then that the government's view the war on terrorism then is must not be a very serious thing, or that bias and prejudice are more important to the government than actually winning that war on terrorism.
And, it appears that Focus On The Family believes that government's engagement in bias and prejudice against transsexuals is a good enough reason to "lose" the "war on terror." Nice.
I think the book that this Focus On The FamilyStoplight video isn't exactly a public copy of the Homosexual Agenda, but the net results of the survey is good for the long term civil rights prospects of LGBT people.
I'm reminded of the Bayard Rustin quote I once had as part of my outgoing email's signature block:
[T]he job of the gay community is not to deal with extremists who would castigate us or put us on an island and drop an H-bomb on us. The fact of the matter is that there is a small percentage of people in America who understand the true nature of the homosexual community. There is another small percentage who will never understand us. Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they could not openly manifest that hate. That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment.
--Bayard Rustin, From Montgomery to Stonewall (1986)
Equality under the law is a key civil rights goal, and there are many tools in the shed we use to get to that goal. Shaping our tomorrows by more expansively defining equality and fairness for the younger generations of Americans today may not have been a conscience goal for most LGBT people, but it sure doesn't seem like too bad an idea to me.
I've a lot of hope for the future of civil rights in our country because of those Americans under age 35.
The court's ruling today is a loss for democracy, a loss for Montgomery County, and a loss for common sense. The average citizen wants to protect a woman's right to privacy and safety. To that end, voters would have defeated this bill. The MCRG is considering a legal challenge to ensure that voters have the chance to be heard on this issue.
--Ruth Jacobs, M.D., president of the Maryland Citizens For Responsible Government
Yes, the world ended. No doubt the world ended in a horrible mess o' violence against the white women and children because we gosh darn predatory, public bathroom using trans people ushered Satan's rule here on earth.
"We're very disappointed with this court's ruling, which suggests that, in America, every citizen does not have a voice. Today's court decision sends a clear message that groups with narrow, extreme political agendas can disenfranchise the voters of an entire county. We will work closely with MCRG toward the goal of putting this issue back into the hands of the voters."
--Amy Smith, Alliance Defense Fund attorney (the Focus On The Family bankrolled legal alliance that represented the interests of the Maryland Citizens For Responsible Government)
Theresa Rickman sent out a letter to mobilize her troops this weekend. She and the Maryland Citizens For Responsible Government warning their troops about the possibility of their free speech being restricted in the email, linked to in the long jpeg on the right side of this piece:
Be careful what you say!
Washington DC's gender identity law punishes users of the "wrong pronoun" with a fine - if you refer to man in women's clothing as a he, DC's Human Rights Commission can levy a substantial fine. Montgomery County's gender identity law goes further.
Ugh.. Is this a real argument, or is this a ludicrous example of hyperbole-ridden spin? Well, of course it's over-exaggeration. They scale back their concern of everyone having to watch what pronouns they use to just employers in the very next paragraph of the email:
As we know, not only did it not rain in Denver, Hurricane Gustav is going to likely hit New Orleans during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota -- just a few days after the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Perhaps if this were a relatively weak Cat 1 storm hitting any other coastal city but New Orleans, this might be a funny subject for a tongue-in-cheek post. However, what happened to New Orleans in the wake of Katrina isn't funny; there is no humor in a Cat 3 or 4 storm hitting New Orleans during the week of Republican National Convention. In fact, it's so humorless, it really highlights exactly how malevolent and unrighteous Stuart Sheppard's prayer turned out to be.
Should Sheppard's God exist and have paid attention to his iniquitous prayer -- well, if I were Sheppard I'd hope my God's response to my wrongheaded prayer wasn't Hurricane Gustav. Sheppard should hope this hurricane is coincidence rather than the vengeful hand of his God manifesting itself against him and his prayer.
And if I were Stuart Sheppard, even weighing the small possibility that my God may have caused this storm in response to my prayer, I'd literally be putting on some sackcloth and ashes this coming week, and staying as far out of the spotlight as is humanly possible.
The painful irony of real people being hurt by a hurricane striking New Orleans -- during the week of the Republican National Convention, and after this Focus On The Family operative called for rain to strike an outdoor Democratic National Convention event -- should be lost on no one.
Here's a lesson For Sheppard that's right out of The Bible: love people you perceive to be your enemies, and do good to them. Whatever you do, don't ever pray for even minor disasters to strike those who you perceive as your enemies -- Ostensible karma can be excruciatingly ugly.
One of the things I noticed about the An Examination of Discrimination Against Transgender Americans in the Workplace hearing is that minus the Alliance Defense Fund, there weren't any conservative Christian organizations speaking at the hearing, or it seems even attending the hearing (minus the Traditional Values Coalition, which left press materials at the hearing's press table); and there weren't many Republicans there {with the exceptions of the ranking minority member of the subcommittee (Rep. John Kline, R-MN) and one other Rebublican who didn't speak} -- the only Republican there who asked any questions of any of the witnesses at the hearing was Rep. Kline.
So what's happening now there's a conservative Christian community characterization of the hearing as if there was serious wave of opposition speaking to trans employment issues -- but they didn't actually have much presense there opposing any future gender idenity and expression inclusive legislation in person.
Some examples of online, conservative Christian commentary:
- PFOX: Congressional Hearing To Push Gender Confusion Upon All Americans
Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have scheduled a hearing this Thursday on discrimination against "transgendered" individuals in the workplace.
"Homosexuals and their transgender activist allies hope to use this hearing as a way of forcing the imposition of gender confusion upon all Americans," said Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) Executive Director Regina Griggs today. "Instead of treating transsexualism and cross-dressing behaviors as Gender Identity Disorders (GID) as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Democrats seem determined to make these behaviors into federally-protected minorities."
"Why should Congress force Americans to provide workplace accommodations for people who are confused about whether they're male or female? How can Congress force us to make believe that a man is really a woman or a woman is really a man?"
"If Democrats were truly concerned about these gender confused individuals, they'd push for expanded mental health services for GID. A person can't change his or her sex - and many of these individuals think they're a woman one day and a man the next day. Why is Congress catering to such insanity?"
[OneNewsNow/American Family Association, Peter LaBarbera, Focus On The Family/CitizenLink, Concerned Women For America, and Traditional Values Coalition commentaries below the fold.]
SAN DIEGO -- Several employees of the county clerk's office have been reassigned to other duties because they expressed "sincerely held religious objections" to gay marriage, County Clerk Gregory Smith said Friday.
No employee is being allowed to perform marriage duties involving only heterosexual couples, Smith said. Instead, employees are being shifted to other duties that do not include issuing marriage licenses, officiating at civil weddings or acting as witnesses.
...Smith cited Government Code Section 12940, which requires an employer to explore "any available reasonable alternative means of accommodating the religious belief or observance [of an employee], including the possibilities of excusing the person from those duties that conflict with his or her religious belief."
The San Diego Union-Tribune added that fourteen county clerks inquired about religious exemptions to performing marriages:
[E]mployees were told they would have to perform the ceremonies without discrimination or seek a reassignment within the department or the county.
"The Department is still exploring possible ways to accommodate your religious concerns, but you should realize that it will be impossible for you to remain in your current assignment," employees were told in the June 5 e-mail.
Given that answer, Smith said, several employees withdrew their objections, but a few chose reassignment. He would not give specific numbers. Smith also would not say whether the 14 employees whose e-mails were released were the only ones who objected.
Focus On The Family/CitizenLink got the facts wrong over the numbers...
At least 14 employees with the San Diego County Clerk's office have been reassigned because they expressed religious objections to gay "marriage" and refused to perform the ceremonies.
Does that count as lying, or just sloppy journalism?
Focus On The Family/CitizenLink added:
Jenny Tyree, associate marriage analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said state workers' moral and religious beliefs are in tension with the state. Voters will decide how this plays out when they vote on a state marriage amendment defining marriage as between one man and woman.
"Amending the state constitution in November would not only protect the definition of marriage," Tyree said, "but also will protect the First Amendment rights of people who believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman."
It's easy to give easy digs on Focus On The Family/CitizenLink/Focus on the Family Action for their marriage is the union of a man and a woman language, other than I feel a need to join RadicalRuss in pointing out Sen. Obama recently started using the same language on marriage equality as conservative Christians are using -- again.
[Below the fold: Where Sen. Obama recently used the "marriage is between a man and a woman" language]
Well! Exodus International and Focus On The Family have let us know -- in CitizenLink's piece Gay Activists Unveil Their Agenda for the New Year -- who exactly has the master copy of the "nefarious" Homosexual Agenda®.
For those of you who wanted to know, it's Lambda Legal!!!
Homosexual and transgendered activists are planning 2008 forays into every sector of society - business, health care, schools, the courts, the military and more. That's according to an online report from Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the pro-gay Lambda Legal.
Hate-crimes laws, which grant special protection to homosexuals, are part of the agenda. So is legislation to give gay employees - including transgendered individuals - special rights.
Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International, said those are just the priorities the activists admit to.
"They're not talking about what they're doing inside of individual states," he said. "There's a lot of specifics that are not being pointed out."
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, said: "It is a very nefarious agenda, and we have to be on our guard."
Okay then! I expect Kevin Cathcart to mail out a copy of the document marked Homosexual Agenda® to everyone who identifies as LGBT by the end of next week, otherwise my peers and I won't know what "nefarious" activities we're supposed to get involved with this coming year. ;)
